News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-17
WHAT THE GYPSIES DO.
A StroIIing Band of the Genuine
Sort Now Crossing New Jcr-
Sey.
From the Red Bank Register. I

An encampment of Il score of of gyp-
sizes has been located i'll the woods
owned by Mrs. William NJ. Smith, of
Middleton township. They went in
camp there last Thursday and broke for
other fields on Monday. On Sunday a
large number of persons from Red Bank
and the surrounding country visited
them. The little boys and girls danced
or performed tricks at five cents dance
or trick. Women told fortunes at 81
apiece for men and so cents for women,
and the men traded horses and collected
the money the others took in.
The encapment was some distance
north of Mrs. Smiths house. The gyp-
sizes had three wagons, suitable for
sleeping in Mt night, and for carrying
their utensils and camp equipments
when on the road. They had also three
tents, which were comfortably fitted up.
The wagons were painted red and yell
low. They were very large, so large
that they were divided into rooms, lace
curtains forming the partitions There
were evidences of wealth and luxury in
the wagons, notably the bedding,
which appeared to be of more than or
dinarily good material. The beds were
in one end of each wagon, and were ar
ranged like the hunks of n steamship,
one above the other. The hOrsea were
fne-lOoking animals, and showed that
they had plenty of feed and care. A
number of people have traded horses
with the gypsies, though whether the
result of their trades were satisfactory
is not known.
The gypsies who told the women's
fortunes were neither pretty nor young.
The one who was on duty on Sunday
wore light calico wrapper, with small
red shawl about her shoulders. She
mense pin, which held her hair in place.
She was kept busy all day. She would
tell no ones fortune in the presence of
other people, but took them singly to
lonely place in the woods, where the
quiet seemed in harmony with these
proceedings. From each person whose
fortune she told she begged some trink-
eta fancy-headed pin or penknife or
watch charm. The fortune teller was
especially persistent in her efforts to get
q handsome silk handkerchief from one
young woman, but the handkerchief
was a present from the young womans
best young II az, and she refused. The
two finally arbitrated on the basis of
fifteen cents in cash in addition to the
customary fee of half dollar.
An inquirer asked here why they
charged men higher price than they
did women.
because men have more money than
women she replied. "A man can
spend as much money as he pleases
without telling his wife how he spends
it, but when a man gives his wife
couple of dollars for groceries, he insists
ON knowing how every cent of it was
spent. It's hard for her to get half a
dollar, even for such necessary thing
as to have her fortune told, and if it was
dollar she'd have to go without her
fortune Young women who aren't mar
ried don't have much money either, SO
the price is made as low to them as to |
married women"
The gypsy who told the mems fortunes
wore a number of heavy rings that were
apparently made of gold. Her long
black hair was hanging down her ba k, |
and a bright colored scarf was around |
her neck. Shehad on dark skirt, with |
q waist of brilliant red. In her hair |
was pin which had red glass head |
as big as boys boulder. She was quite
pretty.
One of the Registers young men had
his fortune told, and surprising for.
tune it was. If it all comes true the |
handsomest young women in the |
state will be his bride, and his fortune
will rival that of Jay Gould and the |
Vanderbilts. He was advised not to |
cross deep water III the full of the |
moon, and to avoid young woman |
with clear olive complexion, blue-b black |
hair, and flashing eyes, who was the |
possessor of much wealth, and who was
DESTROYS of marrying the Register young
man on account of his great personal |
beauty, high moral character and pic
turesque poverty. The young man was
assured that lie would ultimately escape
the matrimonial net of the olive com
plexioned young woman, only to fall
Wet II. to the charms of young widow,
tall and slender, with golden hair, soft,
melting blue eyes, pink and-white
complexion, n generous and amiable dis
position, two little girl twins, and a
quarter of a million of dollars in bonds,
mortgages and dividend-paying real es
tate. When the young man objected
to q rich wife on the ground that he
would prefer to pay his future wife's
bills as a simple matter of
manhood, the gypsy fortune teller as
sured him that it would be all right, as
his entrance into the holy state of mat
rimony would simply he the commence
ment of big good luck. Part of it, she
said, would be large fortune which
would come to him from an unknown
relative in Ireland, and that all his bus
mess ventures would pay larger divi-
dends than the Consumers Ice Com
pany's stock.